Capitolo 1
Creative of History
KING ALFRED
OF
THE INGHILTERRA
FROM
JACOB ABBOTT
ILLUSTRATED
YORK NUOVA AND LONDON
HARPIST & HIS/HER BROTHERS
PUBLISHERS
Entered, according to Fit of Congress, of year thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, from
HARPIST & HIS/HER BROTHERS,
In the Office of the employee of the District court of the Southern District
of New York.
PREFACE.
It is the object of this series of histories to introduce a clear,
separate, and connected narrative of the lives of those great
characters that have in the various centuries of the world did him
celebrated as leader among humanity, and, from their part you/they have taken
in the public business of great nations, you/he/she has practiced the more breadth
you influence on the history of the human run. The end that the author
you/he/she has had in sight it is double: before, to communicate such information
in in comparison to the subjects of his/her accounts as it is important for the
general reader to possess; and, in according to place, to draw so moral lessons
from the described events and the characters they delineated as they is able
you legitimately teach to the people of the present age. Although written in
a direct and simple style, they is understood for, and it addressed to,
chins possessed of of the considerable degree of the maturity, for this way
chins can only fully increase of value the character and action that
exposures same, as almost all that they are described in these volumes
ago, in near combination with the behavior and policy of governments,
and the great events of international history.
CONTAINED
CHAPTER
ME. THE BRITISH
II. THE ANGLO-SAXONS
III. DANISH
IV. THE FIRST ONE OF ALFRED ANNI
V. THE STATE OF THE INGHILTERRA
YOU. ALFRED'S AD ACCESSION THE THRONE
VII. UPSIDE-DOWN
VIII. THE ISOLATION
IX. ASSEMBLING SOME ARMY
X. THE VICTORIA SU DANISH
XI. THE KINGDOM
XII. THE CLOSING OF LIFE
ILLUSTRATIONS
WALL OF SEVERUS
SAXON MILITARY HEAD
THE KINGS SEA
LOTHBROC ED HIS/HER HAWK
CHAIR OF ANCIENT CROWNING
THE FIRST ENGLISH FLEET
ALFRED WATCHING THE CAKES
ALFRED'S PORTRAIT